Mount Olive, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bearhouse Township. The Survey maps it on the Mist quadrangle. It stands 171 feet above sea level.

Mount Olive within Ashley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1935 USGS Mist quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Mist quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Mist quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Crossett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

24 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Mount Olive between 2002 and 2019, burning about 369 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2012	Natural	179 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	FOUNTAIN HILL
28 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 2012	Natural	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2012	Natural	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashley County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Riley	1.9 miles	13
Berea	2.5 miles	13
Trafalgar	4.8 miles	13
Snyder	6.2 miles	13
Phelan (historical)	6.3 miles	13
Post Oak	6.7 miles	13
Mist	6.8 miles	13
Promised Land	6.9 miles	13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Mount Olive	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6922502	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 62353. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.